My pal Austin — who you’ll remember from our street food expedition last month — has just posted some spectacular images from another adventure: he accompanied photographer Eric Valli on a journey gathering bird nests inside caves in southern Thailand. Don’t miss it.
I’ve finally gotten around to uploading a bunch of images from when my family was in town over the holidays. It was lots of fun to see everyone; my mom, step-dad, and little brother Colin came from South Carolina, while my brother Mechum popped over from Seoul. (His girlfriend K also joined us toward the […]
I’ve just posted all of my images from our 10-day trip to India. Here’s the full set. We were in Delhi for a few days and then went down to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. After that it was off to Jaipur before returning to Delhi.
A few of my faves:
Glowing Ganesh statue inside our […]
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While I process and upload and sift through the 346 images I snapped during our 10 days in India, here’s one more to whet your appetite. This is me getting a shave in Jaipur, India. Great pic by A. Love the perspective.
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I’m back and blogging from Bangkok, folks. The reason for my absence: A and I went to India.
Wow. What a country.
As you can see, I made a fool of myself at the world’s most famous love monument/mausoleum. What else is new?
More pics and insight soon…
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Beautiful photos of the beautiful game. That’s the subject of Hans Van Der Meer’s gorgeous photography. He’s published a book called “European Fields: The Landscape of Lower League Football.”
(Via.)
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The AP’s Monte Hayes reports that Ecuador has elected a new president:
Ecuador’s president-elect Rafael Correa was once a Boy Scout, later a social worker in an impoverished highland Indian village and now describes himself as a Christian leftist.
Childhood friends still recall Correa’s natural leadership abilities and strong character on the soccer field.
But during his […]
A and our friends Ploy, Dan, and Beau headed to Bangkok’s Great American Rib Company last night to celebrate Turkey Day with ample and tasty portions of turkey, gravy, stuffing, potato salad, coleslaw, pumpkin pie, and even jalapeno cornbread. All that I found lacking was a Lay-Z-Boy on which to recline post-meal and dream about […]
I happened to be up early a few days ago — we’re talking pre-dawn, a time of day during which I am most certainly not at my best. But I managed to snap some pics of the sunrise from my roof deck. (The one at my house, it should be noted, is a reasonable four […]
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A couple of days ago I discovered that a long-time friend of the family, a photojournalist in Portland, Oregon, has begun posting some of his images on Flickr.
(”Uncle” Joel’s a close friend of my Dad; he snapped the pic of me as a three-year-old, above, watching my Pop work in our yard. Here’s the […]
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How the mighty have fallen.
The Nation newspaper ran some photos yesterday of Thailand’s ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra strolling about London all by his lonesome. (He’s currently in exile there after being deposed in the military coup.)
The images seems to convey that Thaksin feels bummed, like, “I’m so lonely here in the UK and I […]
I’m not even slightly a cat person, but since it’s Friday, here’s a special gift: funny cat pics, many of which belong to the Cute Overload oeuvre (though I prefer its counterpart, Ugly Overload). Sadly, there is no Tubcat in this amusing feline gallery. (Side note: My favorite animal site on the Intarweb is and […]
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A and I just returned to Bangkok after five excellent days in the north of Thailand. We spent most of our time in leafy Mae Hong Son, a picturesque town near the Myanmar border.
We were inspired to visit MHS by our pal Austin, who’s a big fan of the region, and I can only say […]
How to carry a bucket and drive a motorbike at the same time. Awesome.
The tag says it all:
“ASIAN SIZE XL.”
I bought this pair of shorts here in Bangkok recently. If you’re a large person like me and you’ve ever tried to buy clothing in Asia, you’ll appreciate the fact that Adidas has seen fit to label these bad boys honestly. An XL in Asia is perhaps an M […]